#and the only way to get back on it is a verification code

[emicat1159]

Ahhh the joys of creating a new Nintendo account, starting completely from scratch

My old email got locked and I can't get it back, you don't wanna know how many years of progress I'm leaving behind 💀

On the plus side if anyone wants to add me as a friend on their swiiiiiitch~

[luvsavos]

i deserve financial compensation for the amount of fucking hoops i had to jump through to enable tipping on here

[eve209]

‼️‼️SMUT WARNING CAUSE IM PISSED‼️‼️

FOR SOME BACK STORY: on Roblox I got banned for a day then when I was logging back in it wouldn’t let me do to the 2 step vari so….I’m mad rn tbh and I wanna fuck Roblox

ROBLOX X TOP MALE READER

THIS FANFIC IS JOKE PLS (kinda short)

(Update that account got deleted…)

‼️WARINGS‼️ punishment, spanking, light choking, degrading, little praise here and there, daddy kink (only 2 times though), pet names, mirror fucking, almost gettin caught, sir kink.

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“FUCKING HELL DUDE” I said bashing my head on my keyboard then looking back up at the screen in front of me.

“What are you mad about this time?” My homie,  Kayden on the call said while chucking.

“Ya know how got ban from Roblox yesterday?”

“Mhm”

“well now I’m trying to log in and it says I have to have a 6 digit code that got sent to my email and I didn’t hook a FUCKING EMAIL ON MY ACCOUNT.”

“PFFFFFF HAHAHA, do ya want me to come over and help with it? Maybe I can spend the night or somethin.” Alex said while I heard him shuffling for something, probably his phone.

“But then I have to wait 45 minutes for you to drive here tf am I going to do in the mean time!?” I said while stretching out my arms and pushing my gaming chair back with my feet till it hit my bed while still having my headset on.

“It’s ok dude your gonna live im packing rn so hold tight and jerk off or somethin.” Alex said.

“BRO WTF-“ I said while getting cut off by the end call sound.

“Fucking hell…” I said breathing out but again getting interrupted by a strange noise coming from the pc. Bringing my head back down from looking up at the ceiling while everything started to violently shake around me.

“What the fuck is happening!” I said gripping the arm rests of the chair then closing my eyes and waiting for everything to be over.

….

…….

Suddenly everything stopped. ‘What the fuck..’ I thought opening my eyes slowly while feeling pressure on my lap.

“Hi there! I heard you are having a hard time logging into your Roblox account! May I help you in anyway to satisfy you?” A soft male voice said above me while I was looking my lap seeing tight, outlined thighs with a small bulge in between.

“WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?” I said looking up, following the tanned body that’s connected to the thighs I was checkin out earlier.

“Oh I’m sorry dear! I’m Roblox! I’m sorry I forgot to introduce myself! Your having trouble right? Well I’m here to take that trouble away!” Said Roblox while holding an iPad, still sitting on my lap.

“Y-yeah I am having trouble. My names (M/n) by the way..” I said lightly grabbing his waist so his ass can stop grinding on my dick.

“Yep! I already know that but thank you for reminding me!” He said but then quickly adding onto it while starting to turn around to the PC, “What seems to be the problem sir?”

‘Fuck…’ I thought while still holding on to his waist. The sight of his round, squish-able ass on my covered dick kinda turned me on. ‘I never knew a fucking app could have such a fuckable ass…’

“Um sir, what you do need help with?” Roblox said while slightly turning his body to the side to look at me.

“Oh yeah um I can’t log into my Roblox account because it says I need a six digit code thats sent to my email but it didn’t send me it so I don’t know what to do.” I said scratching the back of my head while looking up at him, still on my lap.

“Oh well are you sure that you checked your inbox?”

“I’m pretty fucking sure…” I said tilting my head back.

“Well then I’m sorry sir but I don’t know how to help you then…you probably turned on two-step verification and didn’t put an email to go with it!” Roblox said, moving his body to face me again while resting his hands on my chest, and looking at me.

With a deep sigh coming from my mouth, I moved my hands to go under his butt and stood up while still holding him and walking to my bed and placing Roblox in the middle of it.

“Um sir! W-what are you d-doing!” Roblox said moving his hands to clutch the pillow, his head was laying on.

“You said you were here to take my trouble away right?” I said, taking off my hoodie I had on.

“Y-Yes! That’s what I’m here for, but what are you doing!” Roblox said with a worried look.

“Well I have some trouble with my dick and I think you would be perfect and you need a punishment for not doing your job right.” I said putting a hand next to Roblox’s face and looking down on him. “How does that sound princess?” I said slipping my hand down to grab his ass.

POV NOW IN 3RD PERSON

“But sir- MHMM!~” Roblox stuttered before (M/n) smashed his lips onto his roughly and slipped his tongue in his mouth.

As (M/n) was taking his sweatpants and boxers off, he took his tongue out of Roblox’s mouth to replace them with two of his own fingers.

“Fuck baby, look at how hard my dick is because of you.” (M/n) said, grabbing his cock and jerking himself off while taking his fingers out of Roblox’s mouth and entering his fingers in his tight hole. After stuffing his fingers in, (M/n) immediately started to thrust his fingers faster and harder making Roblox scream in pleasure.

After a couple of minutes, Roblox’s tight hole was already nice and loose, which once (M/n) realized this, he took his fingers out and stopped jerking his massive cock off. “Fucking hell, do you know how much time and money I put in that stupid fucking account since I was like 10?” (M/n) said, grabbing Roblox’s neck, choking him, and leaning down to slide his tongue around Roblox’ s face cheek.

“P-please sir! I’m s-so sorry I couldn’t help but I-!~ AH!” Roblox said before getting cut off by (M/n) thrusting his cock into Roblox’s pathetic hole, making Roblox cum right then and there.

“S-shit Baby your still so fuckin tight after fingering your hole for 10 minutes, goddamn slut.” (M/n) said til grabbing onto his neck. Roblox couldn’t even get a breather, nor thought in before (M/n) started thrusting fast into Roblox, making their skin slap together.

“AHH~! DADDY PLEASE!~~ it’s to much! Please daddy I just c-came! Wait wait w-wait!” Roblox said tears of overstimulation and pleasure running down his face.

“God princess, just take it.” (M/n) said while smacking Roblox’s ass.

After 20 minutes of thrusting, choking, degrading and praise, (M/n) still hasn’t came deep inside Roblox like he wants! Unlike (M/n), Roblox has came 3 times already, almost passing out. “F-fuck what a good boy you are baby, such a big dick for a tight ass like yours and your still taking it.” (M/n) said smirking as Roblox arched his back.

“Fuck! S-sir! I-it’s to m-much! Ah!~” Roblox said screaming as (M/n)s dick reached the deepest part of him.

*knock knock knock*

….

“Who the fuck….” (M/n) said stopping, but not pulling out of Roblox. Roblox whimpered,  tightening around (M/n)s cock. Breathing heavily, Roblox asked (M/n) “W-why did y-you st-“. “HEY DUDE WTF ARE YOU DOING??” Kayden said still knocking on the door.

“F-fuck um ONE SECOND LET ME GO TAKE A SHOWER!” (M/n) said covering Roblox’s mouth in the process.

“NAH MAN WTF I WAS JOKING ABOUT YOU JERKING OFF YOU FREAK” Kayden said, laughing and fidgeting with the door.

“BRO STFU I HATE U I DIDNT DO THAT” (M/n) said picking up Roblox and walking to his bathroom in his room. Quickly turning the shower on and sitting on the lid of the toilet. (M/n) breathes and slaps Roblox’s butt and throws his head back before looking at Roblox and whispering..

“You think you can be quiet?”

[fangirltothefullest]

I want to tell the young people about what floppy disks are and why computers needed them and I'm from the 90s so I'm missing info on what came before it but from what I do know:

These bad boys are floppy disks in various sizes:

The plastic square is the outer casing and protects the small little disk inside that actually stores the data. Typically these would have like a built in fuzzy thing to keep dist off the disk.

When we think of computers, we think of zillions of codes working together so fluidly and quickly and they're able to operate tons of processes at once but a when computers were more new, they could only handle so much code at a time! Ye old computers were huge and clunky and could only tackle so much processing.

Think of them like babies- programmers could do tons with computers but the computers themselves could only store so much data!

And in fact we still use SD (storage disk) cards for computers and phones the same purpose.

That's where a floppy disk comes in! The computer would have a disk drive which would run whatever program was on the disk when you inserted it. That way you didn't clog your processing computer with code it couldn't handle.

You could also store files on the floppy disk so they didn't take up computer processing space.

Eventually we got much better at figuring out how to store data and instead of putting it on a tiny disk we made the disks bigger and CD ROMs were used for the same purpose.

Eventually when we got better at making storage smaller and easier to integrate, things like floppy disks and CD Roms wrre deemed no longer needed.l and their disk reader were omitted from most computers and laptops which is a shame!

Downloading apps is easy but you used to be able to own an actual physical copy of the thing you purchased so if your computer crashed and you couldn't get it back and had to buy a new one, you wouldn't have to pay for the program again, you'd already have a copy!

We used to have a photoshop disk that came with its own verification key and you could put it onto any computer you wanted with thw activation key with absolutely no subscription needed. One payment and your tool is yours permanently!

Likewise we can play our dvds from my old Toshiba because it still has a DVD and CD reader and the ancient 90s Dell can play old PC games because it has a CDRom reader!

Sometimes progress is great but the physical nature of the floppy disks and CD and DVDs are highly missed in today's digital based and gatekept society!

So anyways that's what floppy disks are.

Now when an old person glares at you youngins and says ha! Bet you dont know what this is! You can say why thats a floppy disk!

And if they say aha! But what's it for?

You can say IT WAS AN OLS VERSION OF STORING DATA AND PROGRAMS THE COMPUTER COULDN'T STORE ON ITS OWN BEFORE COMPUTWRS GOT FASTER ANS HAD BETTER STORAGE.

They will be so mad and so impressed.

[sirfrogsworth]

The Death of Physical Media

I keep seeing this concern around all of my home theater circles. Ever since Best Buy decided to abandon physical media there has been a call to arms to save it.

Chris Stuckman did a great video on his love of physical media.

I admire and share his passion.

That said, I think there is nothing to stop physical media from being scaled back. At best, it will end up like vinyl and only a few select titles will still be pressed.

Which is why I think saving physical media is the wrong fight.

There is a much larger fight that encompasses more than just blu-ray discs...

(I'm going to use really big letters for dramatic effect so don't get startled.)

DATA OWNERSHIP!

(Imagine a long trailing echo when reading that in your mind.)

(Sorry, I probably should have included those instructions in the previous parenthetical. So go back and read "data ownership" again with the proper gusto.)

(Did you do it?)

(Was it cool?)

(Cool.)

A blu-ray is just data.

The disc does not positively affect the visuals or the sounds. It's just 1s and 0s coded into microscopic pits. You can put that data on a hard drive. You can put it on an SD Card. You can put it on a thumb drive and wear it on a necklace.

You can even use WinRAR to break it up into little 1.44 megabyte chunks and save it to floppy disks.

Another 40 more cases of floppies and you've got Avatar preserved for life!

The medium is not important.

The *data* is important.

And as everything turns into a subscription we are losing out on ways to own data. Beyond that, people aren't yet seeing the value of owning data. If renting a digital download is cheaper, they are almost always going to choose that option.

So the fight is two-fold.

We need to fight for the right to parrrrrty own data.

We need to convince the populace of the value of owning data.

This can apply to software, movies, video games. Hell, I don't even own my damn doorbell videos. There is no way to download all of the footage. I'd have to do each video one at a time. And if I don't keep my subscription, I will no longer have access to that data as it will soon be deleted.

We would need a platform similar to Steam—though it isn't the perfect data ownership solution. Many titles require internet connectivity and DRM verification. What happens to our media when a company goes out of business and the infrastructure to verify the DRM over the internet is gone?

So that would need to be addressed. Perhaps a new form of DRM linked to our digital identity that can be verified locally.

I mean, I'd love to get rid of DRM, but that is probably not realistic.

I think the best avenue is probably a congressional law.

"The Own Your Own Data Act"

TOYODA?

We can workshop the name later.

In conclusion, we don't need to save blu-rays. We need the option to buy data and actually own it in perpetuity.

Meaning if a streaming service deletes a movie or a movie studio goes belly up, our data doesn't disintegrate along with it. We cannot let our favorite shows go extinct. We need to be part of preserving that history. Not to mention discs have a shelf life. But data can be transferred to new mediums indefinitely.

My house is just going to be wall to wall floppy disks.

[isanyonetoknow]

fundraisers pt 4.

links to parts one , two and three here.

Conversion of currencies:

5 USD to 4.46 Euros to 3.78 Pounds to 50.90 SEK

10 USD to 8.92 Euros to 7.57 Pounds to 101.81 SEK

15 USD to 13.38 Euros to 11.35 Pounds to 152.71 SEK

20 USD to 17.84 Euros to 15.13 Pounds to 203.62 SEK

color code: critically low, mid way, near completion.

Vetted Campaigns

Mohammed Almadhoun (@savepalestineinfamily19). His story and the details as to his vetting are here. He is at €6,992/50,000 and his campaign was set up in May. (+1,600 in the last week, 18,008 to halfway, 43,008 left)

Eslam (@eslamfamily1). She is #175 on the Bees & Watermelons vetted spreadsheet. Her story is here. She has a 10 month old. She is at $6,164/50,000 and her campaign was set up in July. (+3,332 in the last week, 18,836 to halfway, 43,836 left)

Youssef (@yousefjehad3). He is #255 on the vetted campaign spreadsheet. He is only 19 and supporting his entire family. His story is here. He is at $7,171/15,000 and his campaign was created early July. (+2,324 in the last week, 329 to halfway, 7,829 left)

Nevin Al-Sir (@nevinalser). Reposted by gaza-evacuation-funds and shared by nabulsi. the campaign was reverse image searched. She has an infant and has already been displaced many times. Her story is here and she is at €1,495/50,000. Her campaign was created in April. (+970 in the last week, 48,505 left)

Youssef Al-Habeel (@saveyouseffamily). Shared by 90-ghost here and is #406 on the ButterflyEffect project. His young son has a severe respiratory illness and desperately needs treatment. He also had to remake the campaign due to some issues with the old one. He is at €13,202/20000 and this new campaign was set up in August, but the other has been up since May. (+7,331 in the last week. 6,798 left)

Aya (@family-aya). Vetted by association (see end of this post for details). She is trying to save her remaining family and trying to provide for them. She is at €4,005/15,000 and this campaign was set up in June. (+1,354 in the last week, 3,495 to halfway, 10,995 left)

Nour (@noorabd1992). Vetted by association (see details here). This campaign was set up in late July and they are trying to evacuate. You can read more of their story here. They are at $15,466/45,000. (+3,699 in the last week, 7,034 to halfway, 29,534 left)

Ahmed Halas (@ahmedhelllis). Shared by 90-ghost here and you can read his story there too. He is trying to save his family, including a father who suffers from heart disease and his son Mahmoud, who has a lot of back pain. He is at €14,933/80,000 and this campaign was shared late July. (+3,024 in the last week, 65,067 left)

Mohammed Shamia (@mo-shamia). #7 on the vetted campaign list. He was able to leave Gaza, but the rest of his family is still there. You can read more of his story here. He is at $63,062/70,000 and his campaign was set up in March. (+1,771 in the last week, 6,938 left)

Abdel Muti (@abdelmutei). Shared by 90-ghost here, and you can read Abdel's story here too. He has a young daughter and his home was completely destroyed. €12,391/25,000 reached and this campaign was set up in June. (+911 in the last week, 109 to halfway, 12,609 left).

Mohammad Ayyad (@yasermohammad is his current account). Shared by 90-ghost here here and you can read his story there too. He has five children and is currenly at €21,485/35,000. This campaign was set up in April. (+2,570 in the last week, 13,515 left)

Non-vetted Campaigns

Donate to these at your own discretion, I'm just here to compile them since, as far as I know, there's no one on tumblr doing verifications, which makes it very difficult for new families to get support.

Ashraf (@abeerashraf91). If you look in the tags of their post, multiple users have pointed out that reverse-image search pulls up no results. They are at €1,311/50,000 and their campaign was created in April. (+822 in the last week, 48,689 left)

Lana (@help-lana). Not yet vetted, but there's a clean reverse-image search. She is trying to evacuate six people, and you can see the exact cost breakdown in her campaign. She is at kr255/450,000 SEK and her campaign was set up in February. Remember that 5 USD = 50.90 SEK. Her goal is about 40,000 USD. (+1,509 SEK (~146 USD) in the last week, 448,236 SEK left)

Youssef Abu Al-Rish (@yosefresh). Not yet vetted, but clean reverse-image search. He is trying to provide for his wife and three children. He is at €1,059/50,000 and this campaign was set up late July. (+1,213 in the last week, 47,728 left)

[csny]

i’ve been following this name change guide (like post court order) that’s specific to my county. to make sure i don’t forget to do anything and also like do it in the most efficient order. and it has links to specific government sites which is sooooo helpful but it’s like almost a year old and already out of date like. specifically they’re like “first you go to social security and you just show up with your id and court order and this 1 form and they change your social security on the spot and mail you a new card! well it didn’t work that way. let me share my experience so far as a list:

go to social security office: the door is locked and they have a sign saying you need to make an appointment online and scan this qr code. if you don’t have an appointment you can’t go inside

scan qr code: it takes me to a government website and i have to make an account. i do. in order to make an appointment i need to make another account with a third party company that handles online forms. i do.

i start requesting an appointment: suddenly it’s asking me way more questions than just what time i can come in. i am essentially filling out the paper form i already filled out, but digitally. im ok with this cause then i’ll show up to my appointment with them knowing more. i finish the form. it says congrats! we got your request for a new social security card! all you need to do now is bring the id verification documents to an office. 2 buttons. one says “go back” one says “make an appointment” i click “make another appointment” nothing happens. i click again. nothing happens. i keep doing this and nothing happens forever. so i try logging out and logging back in to see if it was a glitch or something

i log back in: the website won’t let me access my account until i get a verification code. normal stuff. however it won’t go to my email or text. it has to come in the mail.

i wait for the verification code to come in the mail. like 2 weeks

i type in my verification code: it works and i have access to my account. however i do this late at night and very drunk and don’t want to try to understand the website so i save it for later and then forget about it for a week because it’s christmas and then i get sick.

i log into my account: everything’s great, but there is no indication i ever filled out a form. even though it literally gave me a confirmation number and everything. ok. i fill out the form again i guess. halfway through it says it’s the form only for changing your name because of marriage. click here for a different form. i do. it looks identical. im able to finish the form. congrats you finished your application! click here to make an appointment

i click to schedule an appointment: this time it works. it says. january 27, 3:30pm is the soonest available time. alright i have to wait 20 days but that day works for me i guess. click “see other available times on this day” it gives me more times. they are all earlier than 3:30pm. even though they says 3:30pn was the soonest available. ok. i choose a time for my appointment. seemingly it works but i get no confirmation or email or anything

[wakraya]

My Experience With Roblox

Hey! Hi! Hello! I have just gone through some pretty frustrating stuff and I wanted to share some experiences I've had with the Scam Formerly Known As Roblox.

So let me tell you a little bit of a story.

Back in the day I used to be a small Roblox Creator. And when I say 'back in the day', I mean like a decade ago, before a lot of the current extremely shady monetization and exploitation practices weren't implemented yet. And mind you, there WAS the 'Builder's Club' and there was Buying Robux, but it wasn't as blatant, and you still had Tix as the Free Currency.

Roblox was a place where I found quite the community. I was still not all that good at English, and it was through interacting with others that I pretty much taught myself to speak English. I met some of my longest-lasting friendships, I had my first Hyperfixation... Hell- It even introduced me to Homestuck!

But then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

And by the Fire Nation, I mean that Roblox updated something that broke several of the scripts inside of my game. It dropped without warning, without a Legacy option, and forced Creators to simply adapt and update. Now, it wasn't even anything too big- I believe all I had to do was add 2 lines of code to my scripts, and they'd be fixed.

But, you see. I was inspired to make my own place, because of the work of other Creators. A major inspiration, in fact, was a pretty legendary Bleach Fighting Game, whose... Maker hadn't been on in years.

That was the day I learned the words 'Backwards Compatibility' and realized that Roblox had unceremoniously broken a lot of classic things that now had no repair. Alongside security concerns and the increasing monetization of the place, I decided to simply leave and never look back.

... A few years back, I got an email, telling me that there'd been a successful login to my account.

I quickly got in, changed my password to complete nonsense, reiterated my distaste for the state of the site, and left.

I didn't think much of this event for half a decade, but today. Today I was trying to see if I'd gotten a verification email from a different thing, and I ended up rummaging my Spam Folder, only to find someone writing an email... Asking, politely, for trading of some of the limited items left on my archaic account.

Unsure if this was a scam or not, and wondering what 'cool' items I even could've had in my inventory (Apparently I've got some unique octopus that sells for 22K Robux or something? Shrug-) I decided to log into the site, and... Just on a whim, I checked my messages.

Every single message for the last several years going back were just scams, which truly speaks volumes to how the site had developed. But, more importantly. Going further back, I found people asking me to please come back, and fix the game... Or. 'Make it free'.

...

Apparently. Apparently. In the time I got hacked years ago. Before whoever did it changed my email or password. They had, effectively. Updated my old game, with a message that 'it was back', and monetized it.

Apparently for the past few years I've gotten an insignificant but existent stream of Robux from some poor kids or nostalgic people trying to get back into my game.

I immediately went to try and fix things, only to realize there were no Options to remove the 'pass', and I couldn't find a way to remove the monetization, either.

Now. Mind you. I was doing this on the Browser. Maybe from the client it would've been better, easier, and clearer, but let me tell you- I have not. Seen. SUCH a Hostile UI in my entire life trying to just. FIND what to do to stop this from happening, and eventually I just. Opted for privating and taking down the game entirely. It's broken anyway, after all.

Following that I tried to make a statement on the description of my account, only to see, in horror, that my 1000 word message turned entirely into ####### because apparently I'd written one too many banned terms, because I was, in fact, talking about my account getting hacked, and monetization.

I tried writing a few other messages, and I swear, that was one of the most aggressive content filters I've seen in my ENTIRE life. 'Consent', 'Whole', and several other completely innocent terms just constantly eaten by the censorship algorithm, making writing a new description one of the genuinely most frustrating experiences I've ever had with any website online.

So. I guess. There's not much I want to say here. I am mostly venting about what an awful, awful experience this whole thing is, but like... Seriously. The hacking and security was rampant back then, and I doubt it's any better now. Even if it was, the sheer scope of the scams and exploitation that this... Service is even allowed, is genuinely a Late-Capitalism Nightmare.

Anyway, that was a wretched experience, and as nostalgic as I am for Those Days, and as sure as I am that there's people who still love Roblox and who have made incredible friends through it...

That... Thing... Is a monument to Humanity's Hubris, and shouldn't exist-

[eclaire-went-bam]

morals are so confusing sometimes. it's not like i'm trying to do anything malicious, it just doesn't occur to me that most people see these things as bad — to me, some things are just kind of a means to an end and if nobody gets genuinely hurt idrc ??

if i let someone borrow something and they're not giving it back, i don't really see anything wrong with telling a lie about the importance of that item to guilt trip someone into giving it back (eg, so & so gave this to me before they died & it's rlly important to me so i really would appreciate it if i got this back soon ...). not because i want to go outta my way to make someone feel bad, but that's just how i view the world. they are probably maliciously keeping my stuff, so just talking to them wouldn't be enough. so why shouldn't i?

i don't see an issue in hacking into my parents email so i can get the verification code for a family streaming service, it takes me a really long time for it to click that actually People Don't Like Someone Going Thru Their Private Stuff even though i'm not trying to find anything but the verification email

type of things that i don't really realise could genuinely upset someone until i think about it a lot and ask someone for their opinion. i could realistically just ask and communicate better, but i often fall into the pit on never relying on anybody to do something when i put a task in their hands. that will only end up hurting or disappointing me.

oftentimes in trying to watch my own back and keep myself safe from nonexistent problems, i somehow create them

[alex-guerin]

I bought my dad a new laptop for Christmas. I need a fucking degree in computer sciences in order to set the damn thing up and get it how he wants it and easy for him to use. THANKS BEING A PIECE OF SHIT, WINDOWS/MICROSOFT!! Your Windows 11 update to make things "better" or "easier" for people to use is bullshit. I can't even install FIREFOX on the damn thing, cuz apparently I need something from the Microsoft Store to run the installation program. Which means setting up an Microsoft account for him. Which means getting a verification code sent to his email in order to finish setting up his account, which I can't currently get into cuz he never remembers his password to things and rarely uses email, do you think he can remember his email password? Fuck no.

Also, a resounding FUCKING. FUCK. YOU. to Apple for making their iPhone unhackable. He hasn't used his old iPhone in over a year, but it has all of the pictures of his beloved dog trapped on it...he can't remember the passcode to get into the phone. The only way I'd be able to possibly hack into it, would result in losing everything on it. 6 years worth of pictures lost forever (because no, he didn't have an iTunes account, so no,his phone was never set up to automatically backup everything onto iCloud).

Today is my mom's birthday. I came downstairs to wish her a happy birthday, open her presents from my dad and me, and started back upstairs. She is now mad cuz I went back upstairs instead of staying downstairs to watch the movie(s) my dad brought over with them. THERE'S FUCKING NOWHERE FOR ME TO SIT! I'm not sitting on the livingroom floor.

🙄😭 I can't win for shit. I'm going back to bed.

[liskantope]

For the most part I've felt nothing but complete horror at the prospect of deepfake-type technology (where videos could be doctored to show someone who wasn't there, an action that wasn't happening, or speech that didn't occur) arriving at our doorsteps in the not-at-all-distant future. This is for the obvious reason that the last thing we need in the age of everyone being able to choose their own ideological corner's interpretations of every empirically observable thing is to add a brand new layer of uncertainty about every instance of video documentation we see.

But today I was just thinking that such a development might instead provide us with the kick in the pants that we need as a society: while a lot of people right now seem to lack the imagination (at least in their moment when they see something before they go on with their day) to consider how a video clip (or a photo, or a quote) might have judiciously been taken out of context. But in a world where videos showing completely fake events are commonplace, everyone will at least understand the concept and, rather than choosing to believe whichever video satisfies their favorite political narrative, will probably stop believing anything they see in videos altogether.

Now maybe that just seems like one problem being replaced with another: namely, videos could no longer be used at all as a form of evidence for anything. I like to imagine, though, that there will be some way of verifying videos that is put in place as the deepfake-type technology is established, so that universal default skepticism of what is shown in videos will incentivize some kind of non-replicable Stamp of Verification to be manufactured and used to create a class of documents that can be taken at face value.

...Which just sets us back to our initial problem that we have today (as I'm somehow only just realizing as I'm writing this post. But anyway.)

Also, I can imagine a world where AIs are not only creating fake footage faster than humans can keep up with but manage to hack into our code for embossing things with the Stamp of Verification, in which case we're kind of in trouble, but if AI gets that powerful we might be screwed in a lot more ways than that regardless.

[blurglesmurfklaine]

For the fic title game, yet another shamelessly stolen song lyric: hearts will break (for future's sake)

EEEEEEE BRUH I’ve never heard that song and have no clue what it is but what a BANGER line

Okay so I’ve never done this with the newsies fandom only because i haven’t really written much for it, but I’m a sucker for reconciliation. Just an absolute slut for Right Person Wrong Time, so I think that’s what I would make this hypothetical fic about.

omg omg omg and it would be one of those double timeline fics where it jumps between the past and present as a nod to the (for future’s sake)

my vibe for the Past Timeline is: Jack and Davey meet and hit it off VERY quickly because they are them and inexplicably drawn to each other. I’m thinking college freshman era, maybe they’re roommates?? Yeah, yeah they’re roommates let’s roll with it. Past Timeline would ideally jump around through their four years of college in order of relevance to the Current Timeline (we’ll get there, bear with me. There’s a bear with me. His name is Fred. He’s a menace) but begin with their last interaction/falling out and end with their first meeting— Think JICFEBDHGA, If the scenes were the alfabético and alphabetical order was chronological.

The general vibe I’m going for is Jack being head over heels in love with Davey and Davey just having NO FUCKING CLUE because Jack is his friend, his buddy, his rotten soldier, his sweet cheese, his good time boy. But like, Davey is just so Repressed (not in a gay way, he knows he’s 💅🏽, he just doesn’t talk about his feelings and isn’t in touch with them because Oldest Brother Syndrome) that he’s like “yeah this Amazing Feeling and Deep Connection is just friendship :)”.

Meanwhile Jack desires this fucking weirdo he’s stumbled upon carnally and is literally obsessed with him and always dropping casual “I love you’s” “I would marry you in a heartbeat” “for real I want you in my life forever” bc he’s got that All Or Nothing personality and Davey’s dumbass is just like OH YOU!

That all ends poorly because eventually Jack’s like. Dude I am IN LOVE WITH YOU!!! But there is An Obstacle (maybe Davey’s already met someone else and Jack’s too late, maybe Davey thinks he doesn’t feel the same??) and jack… hoooooo boi that guy can NOT handle a) rejection (rejection sensitive dysphoria anyone???) and 2) the idea of davey Not Choosing Him so he DIPS. Skips out on graduation, and moves back to his hometown (Santa Fe)

This is the vibe for Present Timeline: it’s been several years, Davey hasn’t thought about jack in ages (that’s a lie, he was having his midnights moment like. Last night. CAUSE HE WAS SUNSHINE I WAS MIDNIGHT RAIN! ) but Jack’s in Santa Fe anyway and is married and has a kid according to Facebook a few years ago so rip Davey trying to find the colors jack painted his life :/ bc of That WS Just Friendship he hasn’t found anything CLOSE in ages. But surprise! He stops for covfefe and guess who the FUCK is the barista? In New York? Guess who the FUCK has been living there with his daughter (sorry I’m in a very Single Father!Jack mood) for SIX MONTHS and never said a WORD to Davey??

Anyway, this timeline would go in straight chronological order and follow them reconnecting, hashing out their old shit, deciding if they want to be together (they do) and what that looks like. So think 0123456789 numerical order being chronological.

So on the whole, the order would be something like:

0J1I2C3F4E5B6D7H8G9A (come out looking like a fucking verification code 😭) if that makes sense???

Anyway. That was a lot, whoops! But this was actually so fun to do while I wait for my laundry! :D

[enigma2meagain]

CODE RED!

Congress (specifically Dick Durbin) is trying to sneak in EARN IT Act copycat bills called the Cooper Davis Act and the (S.1199) Act into the must past National Defense Authorization Act because they know that these bills are incredibly unpopular and fatally flawed!

For a sense of what these bills are actually like, here's what similar bills like the EARN IT Act and Kids Online Safety Act's flaws are:

Despite the claims of not subjecting our data to privacy risks, the only plausible way that the system created by KOSA works is by creating an age-verification system, that would require children and adults alike to hand over even more of their private data to unreliable and under-scrutinized third party companies with vast databases. In other words, people would be forced to upload their government IDs to access the internet. This is the exact opposite of protecting children’s privacy and data. The risk of exposing our identities if they are ever compromised is too great. What would happen to trans people, those in abusive situations, the undocumented, and activists not just here but internationally? 

Through EARN IT, websites would essentially be made to become state actors and collect CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). But by doing so, they basically make that evidence completely inadmissible in court due to violating the fourth amendment (unreasonable/unlawful search and seizure). In other words, not only are sexual predators more likely to run free, (which is the exact opposite of what they claim this bill will do), but this bill is actively asking to invade our privacy and gathering even more data on us despite claiming the opposite.

And these bills create an unaccountable committee that gets to dictate what constitutes as "harmful media", which can easily be used to silence LGBT media and enforce online censorship. They're shoving through TWO copycat bills under names that evoke "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" onto a must pass bill to avoid any scrutiny, EXACTLY the same way that Richard Blumenthal tried to do the same thing back in Winter 2022!

Please help stop this; these bills could be forced in at any point between now and July 27th, and it'll be very difficult to get rid of them if they do get in! there is a script and phone numbers above.

[paulgadzikowski]

[copied from my reblog of this post about lack of forward compatibiilty in technology so I can reblog amendments to my story without cluttering OP's notes, and backdated now that you can do that here]

I’m reblogging this from someone who reblogged it from me because since I reblogged this I’ve experienced it

Friday I sat with my mother at her place to wait for the arrival of the phone repairman from the phone/cabletv/internet company sometime between 08:00 and 17:00. Mom’s phone’d been out for a week, and she was also having trouble logging into her email. Mom is 90 and not very mobile and doesn’t have a cellphone so, aside from me, these things are her only means of putting out contact to the world. For a week I’ve been going over to Mom’s twice a day because we are regularly checking in with each other daily anyway but now all our means to do so telecommically were out.

At 15:00 the phone repairman phoned me (I’d left my cell as the contact number) to inform me the problem (which he mentioned is being experienced by multiple customers) is, somehow, not with the company’s phone lines but with the company’s cable lines. Therefore it would require a cable tech to fix it and he would pass this information on to the cable department. (The cable tech(s), it develops, will be out tomorrow, Monday. Sometime between 08:00 and 17:00.)

SO I decided to sit down with Mom’s email and try to change the password so she could reach me that way again. The problem was, it developed, the account had no established means on record for a temporary code to be sent out (well, it had Mom’s phone number, BUT). With a trip to the brick-and-mortar store (Did I mention Mom’s internet is with a different provider than her phone? Mom’s internet is with a different provider than her phone) I got my cell phone number added to the account because I was already listed as an authorized user.

BUT THEN, for reasons that aren’t clear to me, before I could change the password I needed to Verify Identity To The Account. By sending a copy of state-issued photo ID by cellphone camera, then a selfie.

(The counter CSR saw my ID while I was there, and Mom’s, yet directed me back to this process. Why couldn’t they have done the identity verification right there? I wish I’d understood the process’ purpose well enough while at the store to ask that.)

At home I went through the ID verification process six or eight or ten times in two hours. And each attempt took multiple tries to get satisfactory photos of the state photo ID.

The first wholly successful attempt, with Mom’s ID and selfie, was nevertheless rejected because her ID is expired.

Aha, thought I, I can do it with my ID and selfie, because I’m also an Authorized User. <belushi>But nooooo</belushi>

Every attempt at the verification process with my ID required multiple tries because of difficulty of the system recognizing the photo on my ID as a face.

Meanwhile every attempt to photograph the ID, front and back, required the ID be ideally framed and centered in the viewfinder, with no shadow or reflection on it; and held steady, at a distance greater from the surface where the ID rested than my hand could brace it, in order to get the whole ID in the frame.

But I did get through the process! Twice! And each time I reached a screen that informed me that the verification was successful and I could go on to the next step! - but did not say what the next step was, nor present me with a button to proceed to it.

In retrospect, what it probably meant was to go back to Mom’s laptop and resume trying to change her email password. I didn’t realize this Friday. I realize this because today (Sunday) when I stopped by to check in, Mom was in the process of trying to update the password herself. She was stuck on the … oh I can’t think of what they’re called, where you have to pick the squares that have a bus (that also took multiple tries, and I mean about a dozen after I took it over - I think her laptop screen colors are off; it’s old). I got her through that, and we successfully entered the new password, twice for security.

Then we were presented with a screen for creating two-step verifiction.

With no option to skip it.

Using her phone.

[pbandjesse]

Today was great. I am so very very tired. And also my back is sun burnt!! Which makes me annoyed but it's fine. I had a really great day.

I slept okay last night. I woke up a little before my alarm and was in a good mood. I was nervous about the day. This was my first market of the season and it was a big one.

James had already packed everything in the car. So I didn't have to bring much. I got dressed and felt very pretty. James asked if I wanted to get McDonald's breakfast. And I thought that would be really nice. So we would leave home and headed there.

We got to the museum after stopping at McDonald's at 8. Which was early. I wasn't actually supposed to set up until 830 but I knew where I was supposed to be, I had the map with the assignments, so I started setting up.

I said hello to the volunteer coordinator and soon other vendors were showing up. James would come back outside to help me put my tent up. I was struggling a little to do it alone. I was a little frustrated with James. They didn't have to start work until 830 and I thought they were going to stay outside and help me. But they would come back to help and I would take my time getting set up. But it was great in the end. Even if there were some hiccups. Specifically with my card reader. I needed a verification code from James's phone and they weren't answering me and I was getting very mad and then I had to walk across the parking lot to get the code and was just not thrilled. But it was fine. We made up. And continued a really good day.

I would accidentally start being in charge as other vendors started showing up. Helping to direct where people could go or who to get help from. But finally Kathleen would take over and she's great. I'm really glad she likes me so much because I also really like her and she's so supportive of my art and products. Feels good.

And this was a very very good day. I would be making sales throughout the day but I also was doing live print making and giving away my prints. And this was drawing people in. Plus giving out my business cards to so many people. I was having great conversations. Getting other people's cards to invite to Puhtok's music festival next month. Just having a great time.

I would start making sales right away. And it was funny that there was almost no rhyme or reason. It was a little of everything getting sold. Stickers, prints, plushies, keychains. I even sold a totebag! People were so sweet and telling me how much they liked my stuff and the energy of the day was just beautiful.

And it was a beautiful day. The weather was perfect. But the wind was strong. It wasn't so bad at first. But a few hours in people's tents started flying. Things were getting broken. My neighbor would let me have her extra tent weights and it was the only reason I wasn't flying away. But even that would save me. My baskets were going everywhere. And towards the very end of the day I had to have someone help me take my tent down because it tried to go flying and was just to dangerous.

I would get to spend a little time with friends today. Meril was there. And Jordan. We would go and get bagels together before the market started. And Stanley would spend some time hanging out with me enjoying the music. Jesse would even come out and sit with me and we would talk about me possibly coming to work with him to do events. Which I think I would really enjoy. A change of pace and I think me and him would really really do well working together. We will see if it leads anywhere in the near future.

I had made $200 by noon. I was thrilled. I was way past my goal, and had covered my table costs within the first hour. I was a little tired and frustrated by the wind but only a little. In general I was just in a great mood. It was great weather. I felt pretty. My body wasn't aching. I was having fun printing my free cards. I was meeting nice people. The music was good too! And best of all my airline tickets was finally sorted and I didn't have to be stressed about that anymore.

Eventually my tent would have to come down. One of the vendor volunteers would come and help me. Kathleen came over too as I was not the only one who decided to take down their tents. I would also take one of my tables away. I was just getting to tried to chase my stuff and my sticker displays just wouldn't stay up. Annoying. But whatever.

A dad and son would come up to ask a sewing question. They wanted to know how to close the last part of the goldfish plushie they had just made. So I taught them how to do a ladder stitch and the dad though it was magical. He tipped me $5. Which was unnecessary but very appreciated.

I would do my last few prints. But I was almost totally out of ink. So I packed that away too. And would just have my stuffed animal table out and would be chilling for the last hour.

Which is when I got sun burn. I didn't even realize! I had put on sunscreen but I did not get my back. My fault. Boo.

At 4 I started packing the last of my stuff. And as I was putting things away I made two more sales! Which ended my day at $450! That is my best ever one day market! I was so proud. This felt so good. Like validating. I'm a real artist and I'm really doing this. And I know not every week will be this successful but this was a great tone to start the season.

As I was finishing packing James came out to help carry things to the car. And once that was done we would spend the next couple hours enjoying the rest of the festival!

I had a lot of fun seeing some music, enjoying the jam sessions, wandering around the musuem and overhearing people talk about how cool the museum was. It made me feel so proud. I love the museum and I want other people to love it too. And this was just so good. This was such a wonderful event.

I would do some museum education stuff. Talking to people. About print for a long time. And the cannery. James hates when I do that without my name tag on. But I always tell people I work there before I start touching stuff. And I had some really awesome conversations. I also saw someone who looked super familiar and it turned out I knew him from TikTok! He makes the videos for the Baltimore Banner and we have talked on there before! That was very cool!

Me and Jesse would go pilfer the machine shop for some bolts. And James was running around helping with things. Eventually we went to get food. James got a burger and I got a really really excellent Egyptian falafel. It even had the whipped garlic sauce I love. It was a really really good meal.

I would eat at the front desk. And would answer some questions and chat with people. But eventually James was tired and I was tired and there was nothing else we needed to do. So we would go and find Beth and Bri and Jesse and said goodbye. And I was just in such a a good mood. Very very happy, after a very very good day.

My skin was starting to hurt though. I decided that I would take a cool black tea bath when we got home. And I would do just that.

When we got back here our neighbors, Sean, Victoria, and baby, were going for a walk. And we stopped to chat. Got to meet baby. And I was like "you made that!! That's crazy!!!" And she said "it's true!!". We let them know we would be traveling and to not think Callie was a criminal. And they wished us safe travels.

After we got eveything inside and put out of the way I would go and run my bath. And James would go for a walk to decompress.

And the bath was nice. But it didn't take the pain away as much as I hoped. Ah well.

When James got back they put aloe on me. And we would go through the bags to double check stuff and move some things around. And I am very pleased. My backpack is not to heavy. And I have everything I want to be on hand. And things are charged. Including my two battery packs. James would go over their list and we would make a plan for tomorrow.

I would hang out in the floor on front of my mirror. Which I have been doing a lot since I moved the bed and it's my favorite thing. Its like when I was in grad school, sitting in my walk in closet. It's good for the soul. I plucked my eyebrows a little and cleaned up my cuticles and enjoyed the evening.

I had bought a T-shirt at the end of the day and I am wearing that now, chilling in bed, and we are waiting to check in, 24 hours before our flight! I'm nervous and excited. I am hoping to get a good amount of sleep on the plane. I will do my best to just be chill and enjoy the ride.

I plan on getting my post up before we get in the air. But after that I am not sure when my post will be because of time zones! But we did get world service on our phones so I am hopeful about being able to use my phone. Fingers crossed!

I hope you all have a beautiful day tomorrow. I love you all!! Goodnight!!

[roschka]

So I was looking something up and came across an article from a website I'd never heard of. It seemed to have the info I was looking for so I clicked on it, but before I could read anything I got a pop-up saying "You must enter your email or phone number to log in in order to read this article."

I was like, that's super annoying, but whatever, I'll put my email into this website I have never heard of before and am going to use exactly once. But when I did, instead of getting access to the fucking article, I got this pop-up:

Another step just for me to read an article. When I confirmed the code, it sent me to a subscription service thing which was not mentioned previously, but I was able to back out of that page and read the fucking article.

It took me like 5 minutes to enter my email, wait for the verification code, enter it, deal with the subscription page, only to skim the article for interesting information in 30 seconds.

Yep this is definitely the way I love doing things yep I have no problem with every fucking website requiring this level of jumping through hoops or a subscription or turning off your ad blocker yep this is fine